Apple AI leaves Elon Musk bitter

Hello, AI Enthusiasts!

Welcome to FavTutor’s AI Recap! We’ve gathered all the latest and important AI developments from the past week in one place, just for you.

In Today’s Newsletter: 😀 

• Introducing Apple Intelligence with New AI Features for iPhones

• Elon Musk May Ban Apple Devices in His Companies’ Premises

• Now You Can Talk to ChatGPT Over Other Apps on Your Phone

• Kling AI Challenges SORA with Jaw-Dropping Video Outputs

• Amazon’s Project PI uses AI to look for Defects before Shipping Products

• Perplexity Pages Let You Research and Create Reports Easily

APPLE
🔮 Introducing Apple Intelligence with New AI Features for iPhones

Apple introduced Apple Intelligence, the personal intelligence system available for iPhones, iPads, and Macs that offers built-in generative AI tools for improved writing and image creation.

Insights for you:

• The first big feature is Rewrite where the user can select a piece of text and change its tone to be either friendly, professional or concise.

• Users can also generate new emojis using AI called Genmojis for each new occasion to express themselves.

• Our favourite tool is Image Wand, with which users may turn their simple hand-drawn sketches into beautiful AI-generated images.

ELON MUSK
😠 Elon Musk May Ban Apple Devices in His Companies

Seems like Elon is not happy with the deal between Apple and OpenAI announced at WWDC 2024. He replied to Tim Cook’s tweet on X that he might ban Apple devices on the premises of his companies.

Insights for you:

• Musk argues that the OpenAI-Apple partnership is a security violation and thinks Apple doesn’t know what they doing.

• On the other side, Apple confirmed that they have taken adequate security measures to safeguard privacy.

• Threatening to Ban Apple Devices by the Tesla CEO gained mixed responses on social media.

OPENAI
🗣️ Now You Can Talk to ChatGPT Over Other Apps on Your Phone

The new Background Conversations feature in ChatGPT mobile apps allows users to talk to ChatGPT even while using other apps and even if the screen is off. Users can access this feature by enabling Background Conversations in the App settings.

Insights for you:

• ChatGPT mobile app just got an update that allows you to have voice conversations in voice mode over other apps.

• Users must enable Background Conversations in the voice mode section to access this feature.

• Various possible use cases emerge after this update including smart navigation, multi-tasking with virtual assistance etc.

KLING
😲 Kling AI Challenges SORA with Jaw-Dropping Video Outputs

The Kuaishou Big Model Team created Kling, a model for creating videos. Its strong video creation features enable users to quickly and simply produce artistic videos. This AI model is very impressive and can generate videos of up to 2 minutes!

Insights for you:

• Chinese video platform company Kuaishou announces Kling, a powerful text-to-video generative AI model.

• Built upon the diffusion architecture with powerful 3D VAE technology.

• Can generate videos for up to 2 minutes while capturing bodily movements, video outputs, aspect ratios and much more.

AMAZON
🎁 Amazon’s Project PI uses AI to look for Defects before Shipping Products

Amazon has deployed a new AI system in their North American centres to scan products before they are shipped. They are calling it P.I. (Private Investigator) to check if the project is not damaged.

Insights for you:

• Amazon’s P.I. uses generative AI technology and Computer Vision to scan products in their centres.

• It can detect if the product is damaged or if it is the correct colour and size

• If P.I. finds a defect, the product is removed from shipping, which can then be sold at a discounted price later.

PERPLEXITY
✍️ Perplexity Pages Let You Research and Create Reports Easily

Perplexity AI has launched a brand-new feature called Perplexity Pages that will allow users to do the searching, writing, and laying out of a report with just a single prompt. This can assist users in producing quick reports, how-to tutorials, and visually appealing articles.

Insights for you:

• Perplexity AI launches Pages, a new AI feature that will help you generate Web Pages based on your prompts.

• Users can customize and rearrange your content in Pages, just as they want.

• Perplexity Pages will first be made available to a select group of users before becoming accessible to everyone soon.